سبزواتجی

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms
  • زارزاواتجی‎ (zarzavatçı)

Etymology

Derived from سبزوات‎ (sebzevat) +‎ ـجی‎ (çı). See سبزوات‎ for more.

Noun

سبزواتجی • (sebzevatçı)

  1. a vegetable seller; a vegetable hawker, a greengrocer

Descendants
  • → Armenian: զավզավաթճի (zavzavatʿči), ⇒ Զավզավաթճյան (Zavzavatʿčyan)

Further reading
  • Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901), “سبزواتجی”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 705
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